Yeah, as it turns out, "from time to time" means (in the dev's words):
"At the moment it's whenever you need to conduct a server moderated transaction like trading." and
"The servers handle more than just the data, they handle all the key processes for interaction in the game, so trading, mission generation and background simulation to name a few."
Anecdotally, in the beta at least, the client apparently lasts between 2 and 5 seconds if you pull your 'Net connection.
The enormous rage-thread about this on Frontier's forum is hither:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/...
(is at nearly 500 pages now).
Another useful thread to check out is this one:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/...
which just has stuff the company has had to say since the whole thing blew up (although they haven't posted since Saturday).
Haven't read this particular one, but 'Computer Orginisation and Design' by these guys is worth a look, too.
They tend to start with the obvious, simple or initial ways of doing things, then build along clear principles to get to where the more complex stuff is.
A good study of that fraught region where the hardware and software meet, with particular emphasis on MIPS architecture and RISC design (but with online extra bits that go into more detail about other chip designs).
Managed to make some information adhere to my brain despite my awful study habits.
Anyone be interested in an international resource for doing precisely this? Could be amusing; the Committee for Reduction of Analysis of Personal info.. or something of that ilk. Swap your safeway cards! Fake your demographic data! etc. Aside from the general spookiness of so much info. on you being stored, even if all this kind of information does is help target advertisements at you, that's bad enough. Dunno abt. you guys, but I adbuster by browsing, & mute the tv ads at home. There is occasionally one that grabs my attention, but they're rare. How irritating would it become if ALL the ads grabbed my attention... I'd never get _any_ of my uni stuff done.;)= Or to put it another way; you know those irritating fake subject lines you get in spam designed to make you read them, despite the fact that they're from arsehole125323541234@hotmail.com? Imagine how much it would suck if instead of their usual generic 'About your order' or 'Just returning your mail' type bollocks, they were actually relevant... Say, "Has recovered?", or something... sure, if the overall amount of spam was reduced to relevant stuff only, that'd be lovely. Call me cynical, but I reckon its rather more likely that you'd get the same amount, but it'd be harder to filter out, one way or the other, which is the point of the advertisers' job, no?
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Yeah, as it turns out, "from time to time" means (in the dev's words): "At the moment it's whenever you need to conduct a server moderated transaction like trading." and "The servers handle more than just the data, they handle all the key processes for interaction in the game, so trading, mission generation and background simulation to name a few." Anecdotally, in the beta at least, the client apparently lasts between 2 and 5 seconds if you pull your 'Net connection. The enormous rage-thread about this on Frontier's forum is hither: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/... (is at nearly 500 pages now). Another useful thread to check out is this one: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/... which just has stuff the company has had to say since the whole thing blew up (although they haven't posted since Saturday).
Haven't read this particular one, but 'Computer Orginisation and Design' by these guys is worth a look, too.
They tend to start with the obvious, simple or initial ways of doing things, then build along clear principles to get to where the more complex stuff is.
A good study of that fraught region where the hardware and software meet, with particular emphasis on MIPS architecture and RISC design (but with online extra bits that go into more detail about other chip designs).
Managed to make some information adhere to my brain despite my awful study habits.
erm, that should be 'has [insert sisters' name] recovered?' (it got stripped when I typed it as triangle braces)
Anyone be interested in an international resource for doing precisely this? Could be amusing; the Committee for Reduction of Analysis of Personal info.. or something of that ilk. ;)=
Swap your safeway cards! Fake your demographic data! etc.
Aside from the general spookiness of so much info. on you being stored, even if all this kind of information does is help target advertisements at you, that's bad enough.
Dunno abt. you guys, but I adbuster by browsing, & mute the tv ads at home. There is occasionally one that grabs my attention, but they're rare.
How irritating would it become if ALL the ads grabbed my attention... I'd never get _any_ of my uni stuff done.
Or to put it another way; you know those irritating fake subject lines you get in spam designed to make you read them, despite the fact that they're from arsehole125323541234@hotmail.com? Imagine how much it would suck if instead of their usual generic 'About your order' or 'Just returning your mail' type bollocks, they were actually relevant...
Say, "Has recovered?", or something... sure, if the overall amount of spam was reduced to relevant stuff only, that'd be lovely. Call me cynical, but I reckon its rather more likely that you'd get the same amount, but it'd be harder to filter out, one way or the other, which is the point of the advertisers' job, no?